The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.
Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self
Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you will be nothing.
